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Digital Collections
Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
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Accessing Collections
The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.
Beach and Swimming Pool
Elevated view down boardwalk toward people swimming and sunbathing on a beach, while others on the right are using a swimming pool located near the boardwalk and beach. In the foreground on the lef...
Lifeguard Helps Open Madison Beaches for Summer
June 15, 1957
Lifeguard Nancy Thomsen (5524 Lake Mendota Drive) warns a youngster not to go into deep water at the Tenney Park beach on the official opening day for the summer of the Madison swimming beaches. Sw...
Swimmers at Vilas Park Beach
June 26, 1955
Swimming instructor Ann Sundt checking on swimmers in the shallow water at the Vilas Park Beach.
Madison's Vilas Park Beach
August 16, 1950
A lifeguard observes swimmers at the beach in Vilas Park. A rowboat used by the lifeguard is on the beach.
Nancy Keenan on Beach
June 28, 1945
Portrait of Nancy Keenan standing on a beach in a lifeguard swimming suit. She is one of 7 women lifeguards out of a group of 19 who patrol the Madison beaches for the Madison Parks Department.
